Main Satire Discussion

Invader Zim: It’s done an excellent job with poking fun at Human Life in the Far-Future, from the most technological of devices and gadgets, to the futuristic of food and drinks ever consumed.

’’Even the aspects of daily life in the far-future have devolved into a tortured mockery of itself. In a most Juvenalian manner’’

Invader Zim satirizes aspects of human life in the far future, from the latest technological devices and gadgets, to the food and drinks we’ll consume in restaurants. Just we think our schools will test out its state of the art robotic machinery, as those schools will at the same time exploit their use to take full control of its students. Even the future Christmas holiday is made fun of, with the entire human population worshiping Santa Claus, as if he was God Almighty.

Reason: Idiocracy is a satirical dystopian sci-fi comedy, which makes fun of human evolution in modern-day society, and how it never rewards mankind with intelligence in the far future. The far future itself has run rampant in commercialism, as company logos are pasted everywhere, including hospitals, restaurants, government buildings, houses and clothing shops. Even mainstream media,& pop culture has dumbed down to hatred, bigotry, vulgarity and violence. Furthermore, Classic Dystopian Sci-Fi film references is heavily portrayed, insulted, & made fun of in Idiocracy: The Running Man, Total Recall, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, plus the novels; 1984 & A Brave New World.

MadTv: This took Mad Magazine, and put it our Television Screens in the form of a sketch comedy show.

MAD: Its a spiritual and satirical successor to Mad TV, in the form of an Animated Series.

Just Like MAD Magazine that came before it 5 decades ago, MAD TV the sketch comedy satirizes Products, TV shows, Cartoons, TV Shows, Films, Toys, as well as on American pop culture, even ones predating the 1990s & 2000s. One such Sketch satirizes a Hooked on Phonics Educational Video Game Commercial, where its gaming program takes on the form of John Romero Controversial 1993 Video Game: DOOM. To make matters worse it was allegedly aimed at kids. Children could enjoy the horrifying sensationalism of killing innocent people on their TV Screens. MAD: The 2010 Animated Sketch Comedy Series, finished off where MAD TV left off in 2009. satirizing 21st Century Pop Culture, Films, Cartoons & TV Shows, laced with Crude Toilet Humor and Juvenile Fart Jokes. The first animated sketch insults James Cameron's most historically epic 2009 Film: AVATAR.

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Looney Tunes: This show pokes its cartoonish fingers at early 20th Century pop-culture, both American & Foreign.

Reason: During the early half of the 20th Century, when no one ever had the stomach to make fun of themselves,including other cultures, Warner Bros Studios stepped in and created the most satirically, wild, wacky, and most recognizable cartoon series ever created. Looney Tunes ridiculed everything in the world, World War II, Adolf Hitler, nazism, fascism, fraud, authority, crime, and the mafia, animal hunting, the food chain, modern life, woman, African tribal culture, African American Culture, plus Arabian & Asian pop-culture, not to mention Beatniks, etc. It was Looney Toons that defined satire in the world of animation. By the late 20th century, Warner Bros TV, Nelvana Limited, with the help of David Geffen & Tim Burton to create a humanoid version of Looney Tunes, also with a Gothic/Halloween vibe called Beetlejuice. This spooky animated series, stars a goth girl named Lydia Deetz, and her friend Beetlejuice. Together they explore "The Neitherworld", a wacky satirical afterlife realm inhabited by monsters, ghosts, ghouls and zombies, not to mention undead historical figures, including old-fashioned TV Shows, even TV personalities as well.

Removed the bit about Kanye West "missing the point" because it's unfitting and ridiculous. Not all of Murakami's work is meant to be some deep anti-consumerist message, and not every aspect of his style is somehow meant to get across that idea. He's done a ton of commercial work, including actual, well.... commercials. There is absolutely nothing wrong with just liking the man's style.

Reason: The psychedelically animated series Doug lampoons several retro topics from the
1960s-1980s, like puppy love, bullying jocks, rumors, beatniks, big sisters, video games,
computer use, environmental neglect, crooked politicians, elections, and getting in trouble
with cruel, not to mention strict school staff, including an unfair justice system. Whats even more sad is that Doug and his friends have to take the abuse inflicted upon them. Hey Arnold is just one big tragic mockery of a metropolis, through the eyes of a hardship enduring football-headed kid. This big city satirically has it all, feuding neighbors, deceptive secret agents, corporate corruption, a mean girls obsession with a boyfriend, elderly people, urban legends, criminals, and bullies. Attending a school named PS-118 under a strict principal is no different, both are inefficient & neglectful.

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